Frontier Timeline

2014

Launch First Non-GMO Verified Frontier Products
Frontier launches our first products — Vanilla Extracts and Flavorings — with
labels that include the Non-GMO Project Verified seal on the front panel. They
are the first Non-GMO Verified vanillas available.

2013

Frontier Whole Foods Supplier of the Year
Frontier is chosen from the thousands of Whole Foods suppliers for both the
Excellence in Quality award and their highest award — Supplier of the
Year — in 2013.

Aura Cacia #1 Body Care Brand in Natural Channel

Simply Organic #1 Brand of Seasonings in Organic Grocery Channel

Vietnam School Project Begins
Frontier provides 300 dormitory-style bunk beds and subsidizes meals, books
and school supplies so children in the communities that supply our Vietnam
cinnamon can attend school. The program allows kids who live too far from
the schools to travel back and forth daily to board at the schools and get
an education.

Aura
Cacia Organic 1% Fund Builds School in Madagascar
The first project using funds from the Aura
Cacia Organic 1% Fund is building a preschool near the
village of Ambohimena, Madagascar, for the children of families who pick
organic ylang ylang flowers for our Well Earth partner there.

Frontier Builds Wells in MadagascarFrontier’s Well Earth program provides a $40,000 grant to help build
49 new wells in the farming communities supplying our vanilla — bringing
clean, convenient water to thousands of people in 38 villages.

2011

Purchase
100,000 square foot facility in North Liberty
The purchase and renovation of a warehouse facility on main highways in
nearby (27 miles from Norway) North Liberty allows for the expansion of
receiving, processing and Quality Assurance without further new construction
at the Norway site.

LEED certification for Norway renovation
The conversion of our Norway facility's existing warehouse space to offices,
organic café and product development lab earns LEED (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification. The certification,
established by the U.S. Green Building Council, is awarded for Frontier's
sustainable use of energy, water and materials and other sustainable practices.

2010

Implement natural steam sterilization
Frontier becomes the first U.S. manufacturer to use a new steam sterilization
process with a highly controlled program of steam injection and vacuums
that is optimized for each product. The innovative organic and natural
process ensures food safety by eliminating pathogens while maintaining
flavor and aroma.

2009

Introduce the first Fair Trade Certified spices in U.S.
Frontier is the first company in the U.S. to offer Fair Trade Certified organic
spices to consumers and ingredient manufacturers, supporting marginalized
spice producers for whom Fair Trade social premiums provide the opportunity
of a better way of life.

Establish
SO1% Scholarship
The Frontier Foundation and Simply Organic 1% Fund establish a perpetual
scholarship to the University of California Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology
and Sustainable Food Systems. The scholarship annually pays full tuition
for a participant in the full-time, six-month program of Apprenticeship in
Ecological Horticulture at the Center, the premier sustainable and organic
training program in the U.S.

Send Frontier company band "Aeroroot" to perform at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Aeroroot, a rock band made up of Frontier employees that had made its debut
just four years earlier at Frontier's annual holiday party, advances to the
finals of Fortune magazine's Battle of the Corporate Bands at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

2008

Create Frontier's first social media pages

2007

Establish Well
Earth program to develop high quality and socially responsible suppliers
around the world
The Well Earth sustainable sourcing program is started to find and develop
partnerships with ethical sources of high quality botanical products from
around the world. Grants to Well Earth partners support skill development,
training in organic production, operational improvements, and community development.

Publish our first Sustainability Report
This annual public document gives those outside the company an accurate and
complete overview of our sustainability performance — and provides
focus and motivation for improvement to those inside the company.

Attain AIB "Superior" rating
Frontier receives a "Superior" rating — the highest rating
for an AIB-certified food production facility — following a safety
audit and onsite inspection by AIB International food safety and hygiene
experts.

2006

Celebrate our 30th anniversary!

2005

Establish Aura Cacia's Online Aromatherapy Retailer
Training

$43.4 million in sales leads to record year in sales
and profitability

Achieve new records in market share for aromatherapy
and spice products

2004

Adopt mission "To convert the world to natural and
organic products"
The recent adoption of this new mission statement by management and the board
of directors re-confirms the 30-year commitment Frontier has shown to promote
and provide natural and organic products—and supports bold and ambitious
efforts to develop new sources of natural and organic products around the
world and create new products that will broaden the appeal of these alternatives
in every marketplace.

2001

Introduce
Simply Organic, 100% organic line of spices, seasonings, flavors, mixes
and boxed dinners
The Simply Organic brand is Frontier's most ambitious effort to date to increasing
the reach of organics with affordable, convenient culinary products that
fit the modern lifestyle. Simply Organic's top quality, full-flavored organic
spices, seasonings, mixes and baking flavors are priced to encourage converting
from conventional spices. The increasing appetite of consumers for organic
seasonings is reflected in the dominance of Simply Organic in market data
each quarter.

Sell Frontier Coffee to Green Mountain Coffee

2000

Board hires Steve Hughes as CEO

Executive and management functions move to Boulder,
Colorado

1999

Founder and CEO Rick Stewart retires

Expand Norway facilities to 115,248 sq. ft.

1998

Create herb preserve and research farm in Meigs County,
OhioFrontier purchases 68 acres in the Appalachian region of Ohio
and founded the National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs
(NCPMH) to preserve native populations of at-risk herbs and research
methods of cultivating them to counter the effects of overharvesting.
All results of the Center's research are made available to the public
for free.

1997

Marketing and Creative Departments move
to Boulder, Colorado

1996

Establish Goldenseal Project
The Goldenseal Project was created by Frontier to encourage the development of cultivated sources of goldenseal to counteract overharvesting of the plant's native populations. We converted all of our goldenseal to domestically grown, funded and conducted research and training to increase the number of commercial growers, and informed consumers about the threat to goldenseal populations and about more plentiful alternative herbs with properties similar to goldenseal.

Aura Cacia begins in-house Gas Chromatography testing program
The expansion of Frontier's in-house quality testing program to include gas chromatography testing for all oils allowed us to achieve a new level of control and make a truly meaningful guarantee of quality and purity. Our industry-leading quality-testing program with GC allows us to determine the chemical composition of oils to a greater degree of accuracy than other methods allow.

1995

Launch
first line of certified organic essential oils
Frontier uses the expertise gained in sourcing organic herbs and spices
to bring the first organic line of essential oils to the marketplace.
Just as Frontier's early promotion of organic botanicals helped create
the market for organics, this cutting-edge move into organic essential
oils set new standards and builds support for organic growth in aromatherapy.

Launch first Frontier web site

Distill basil essential oil in conjunction with
Purdue University

For the third consecutive year, Working Mother magazine picks
Frontier as one of the "100 Best
Companies in America for Working Mothers"

1994

Frontier is again chosen as one of Working Mother magazine's "100
Best Companies in America for Working Mothers"

Establish Frontier Coffee social programs

Build coffee roasting facility in Urbana,
Iowa

1993

Buy Aura Cacia Aromatherapy brand

Working Mother magazine picks Frontier as one of the "100
Best Companies in America for Working Mothers"for the first time

Introduce organic Frontier beer

Create
botanical garden at Norway site

Expand Norway facilities to 86,076
sq. ft.

1992

Host
first Herbfest
Frontier eventually hosts 13 HerbFest conferences. HerbFest was the country's
largest annual conference on herbs and sustainable living, drawing as
many as 1,425 participants each August to the Frontier site in Norway,
Iowa. Recognized experts from around the country and the world led hundreds
of seminars on natural living that were attended by people from all over
the United States.

Frontier CEO Rick Stewart receives Iowa Small Business
Person of the Year Award

1991

Introduce line of herbal extracts

Introduce Frontier Coffee, a line
of gourmet, 100% organic coffee

1990

Start Frontier Research Farm for testing and developing methods of organic agriculture.

Launch line of bottled spices

1989

Introduce CO2 fumigation
Frontier was the first in the Natural Products Industry to use a natural
CO2 process to control infestation in herbs and spices. This natural
process allows us to avoid the use of chemical fumigants and provide
greater purity in our products.

1983

1982

Purchase 10 acres near Norway, Iowa and build 22,152
sq. ft. facility

1981

Elect Frontier's first Board of Director's

1980

Return first patronage refund
As a co-op, Frontier returns profits to its member/owners in the form
of patronage refunds. Since the first check was sent out in March 1980,
Frontier has returned almost $7 million dollars to members.

Implement computerized order systems

1979

Begin selling other manufacturer's products in response to store requests

Incorporate as cooperative owned by customers

1978

Establish
$1/hr childcare subsidy and employee lunch programThese two early employee benefits set the tone for three decades
of family-friendly and innovative benefits for Frontier workers. As we
grew, these evolved into award-winning subsidized on-site childcare, gym
and cafeteria (now organic) facilities, while creative services like a
computer purchase plan and at-work haircuts and car care round out a generous
traditional package of benefits. We believe a company that creates, produces,
and markets wholesome, natural foods and personal care products should
also focus on workplace policies and practices that promote personal well-being.

Add first organic products to lineFrontier was an early leader in promoting organic products and the
environmental and social benefits of organic agriculture. We have held
that position of leadership throughout our 30-year history. We were the
first to offer organic herbs and spices and first to be certified as an
organic processor. We have provided ongoing support of the organic industry
and organic agriculture worldwide with programs like the donation of 1%
of Simply Organic sales to organic farming causes. We offer the industry's
widest selection of organic botanical products for herbal, culinary and
aromatherapy uses, and increasing the use of organic products worldwide
is a key aspect of Frontier's mission—and the motivation for a new
program to develop reliable and socially responsible suppliers of high-quality
organics from around the world.